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It was the same sort of impotent-rage teen-angst anthem that every other nu-metal band was offering, but it was somehow sleeker, smarter, more. It had some weird gravity working for it. There was the gleam on that opening guitar riff, the weirdly satisfying use of the old quiet-to-loud dynamic, the sense of space in the beats, the lead singer’s pained and nasal yowl.
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When “One Step Closer” showed up on the soundtrack of Dracula 2000, a movie that we paid money to see for some reason, we all cracked up.īut I couldn’t shake “One Step Closer.” Something kept pulling me back to it. Did anyone need another band like this?įor weeks, maybe months, my friends and I clowned “One Step Closer.” If we were sitting around drunk, as we usually were, then someone would yell, “ Shut up when I’m talking to yoooouuuuu!” and everyone else would laugh. If you were a smartass college student, as I was, then Fred Durst had already entered his punchline stage. were still ascendant, but they had the Christian thing going for them, so they could afford to be late.) A week before the release of Hybrid Theory, Limp Bizkit had dropped their third album Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water - a huge hit, but one that couldn’t match the sales of 1999’s Significant Other.
Slipknot and Static-X and Coal Chamber and most of the other big rap-metal bands had already released their biggest albums. Kid Rock was already in the early stages of his Southern-rock transition.
Korn and Limp Bizkit were still huge, but they’d already peaked. Linkin Park showed up in the waning days of the nu-metal boom. At the time, there were hordes of bands like this - offering similar tantrums, with similar aesthetics - invading the rosters of the various major labels. A DJ who did not wear headphones and who did a scratch solo on the breakdown. Two singers - one howling about how mad he was, one adding choppy almost-rap hypeman interjections. “One Step Closer,” the band’s first single, was, on first glimpse, pure goofiness. You might have thought the whole thing was a joke. If you first encountered Linkin Park in the early days of the Hybrid Theory album cycle, then you might not have seen the plan at work. It’s America’s best-selling rock album of this century, and it probably still will be when the century ends. Linkin Park’s debut album Hybrid Theory, which turns 20 tomorrow, has sold 12 million copies in the US alone - more than any debut album from any rock band not named Guns N’ Roses. They attacked their soul-wracking self-exorcisms with a businesslike precision. Their music only barely scanned as metal, and they took more, both lyrically and aesthetically, from Depeche Mode and Echo And The Bunnymen than from Helmet or Pantera. They wrote lyrics so broad and relatable that they could fit just about any dark-night-of-the-soul context.
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In a nu-metal world full of party-hard jokers and outsized personalities, Linkin Park were practically monks. They were always businessmen, never hedonists. Linkin Park were, and are, professionals. If you were a young man looking for stability, then you could see why joining Linkin Park was a pretty good bet. But then Jeff Blue, a music exec who knew Bennington a little bit, told him about a Los Angeles rap-rock band who needed a singer. He married young, and he got a job at a digital services firm. Grey Daze had self-released two albums, and they had a local following, but they never went anywhere outside the Phoenix area. Bennington had spent five years in Grey Daze, an Arizona grunge band. At the time, Bennington was just past 20, but he was already done with the music business. That plan is what attracted Bennington to the band. Be the first to write a review.“They had a plan.” That was the late Chester Bennington, just before his 2017 death, reflecting on the first time he met his Linkin Park bandmates. Hybrid Theory (20th anniversary edition) Studio Collectionġ001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die ( 2005 edition) (order: 80)ĬritiqueBrainz ReviewsNo one has reviewed this release group yet.
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